When deploying a simple custom flexible nodejs app, the process gets stuck at "Updating service..."

[Jean-Marc Arsan]

When deploying nodejs custom flex containers to the google app engine, the process never finalizes and gets stuck at "Updating service..."

To help troubleshoot this issue, I created a simple "hello world" http server (available here: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/) and then used the gcloud gen-config command.

    gcloud beta app gen-config --custom
    echo "service: test-node-fail" >> app.yaml
    gcloud app deploy

My repository is available here: https://github.com/arsanjea/test-node-fail/blob/master/server.js

On my machine, the following commands work perfectly (I can browse the app on http://localhost):

    docker build . -t testnodefail
    docker run -p 80:8080 -d testnodefail

I've been struggling to make this work for the past 8 hours. Cancelling my plans to move to google cloud if I can't resolve it soon :(

[Kenworth (Google Cloud Platform)]

I cloned your repository and tried it on my VM. It took me around 5-9 minutes on a couple of retries (this is normal by the way). How long does it get stuck on your end? You can also send me privately the log result of running 'gcloud app deploy --verbosity=debug'.

[Jean-Marc Arsan]

Alright, so things seem to be working now.

Thanks!